India, April 6 -- Fiction is flexible when it comes to the ages of evergreen characters. James Bond has always been fortyish from the 1960s to 2010s, remaining the same age during the Cold War era and in the 21st century. Black Widow was born in 1928 in Marvel comics and in 1984 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

That should give Problematics, too, the licence to be flexible with Marvel superheroes. The following puzzle comes with a statutory disclaimer: the ages mentioned are imagined, and any similarity with established fictional ages is coincidental.

#Puzzle 189.1

A puzzler meets the Marvel superheroes Black Widow, Captain Marvel and Scarlet Witch and wants to know their ages. The three women decide to entertain themselves with a ser...